How To Use Sorrow In A Sentence
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You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world.
Flash For Freedom
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More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë.
Kalooki Nights
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Her face was anxious and sorrowful.
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From the past sorrows, we derive our self-respect to love our compatriots.
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10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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So take care of them while they are there and avoid the sorrow and regret you will have when they are gone.
The Sun
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She was portioned with sorrow throughout her life.
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And it becomes all of us to mourn, and to humble ourselves before him in penitent sorrow.
The Nation's Mourning. A Sermon Preached Before the Congregational Church and Society in Green's Farms, Conn., on the Day of the National Fast, Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, June 1st, 1865.
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Pain may create misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it surely comes but never stays. RVM
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His strong able-bodied cockswain did good service in cheerfully carrying his much-loved Commander, and they managed to return to the boat, and brought the two bereaved and sorrow-stricken ladies back to the “Pioneer.”
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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Ana laughed it down, stuffing her hand into her pocket and pulling out two small yellow pills, uppers to block her sorrow.
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These are tears of sorrow that it has come to this, that the country’s matriarch is gone, and no one looms bright over the horizon to serve as the country’s guardian angel.
Global Voices in English » Philippines: People mourn death of Corazon Aquino
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‘The village sorrowed when you left,’ she finally said in Elven with the familiar, heavy accent.
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There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness.
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I suddenly feel myself like a doll,acting all kinds of joys and sorrows.There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
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This is all on the surface, but beneath and better than this is a kindness which leaves no stranger to a sense of loneliness, no want uncared for, and no sorrow unalleviated.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Sorrow and trouble either soften the heart or harden it.
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And Lina, Sorrow, and Florens know that if their mistress dies, "three unmastered women
out here, alone, belonging to no one, became wild game for anyone" (page 58).
A Mercy by Toni Morrison: Questions
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The world of kitsch is in a certain measure a heartless world, in which emotion is directed away from its proper target towards sugary stereotypes, permitting us to pay passing tribute to love and sorrow without the trouble of feeling them.
Roger Scruton on Beauty
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He was afire with every kind of sorrow, lamentation and despair.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Her family is wealthier than most and has seen more sorrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Was that feeling not worth this disabling sledgehammer blow of sorrow?
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In other news, Eddie seems to be going through sorrowful times.
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But you don't live life and not know heartache, sorrow and fear.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- I'm sitten down here, after seven-and-forty miles 'ridin', e'en as forjesket and forniaw'd as a forfoughten cock, to gie ye some notion o 'my land lowper-like stravaguin sin the sorrowfu' hour that I sheuk hands and parted wi 'auld Reekie.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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It is grave, sometimes eloquent, responsive to sorrow, filled with deep questioning.
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It is no shame for me," said Credhe, "I to die for grief after Cael, since the stag is shortening his life sorrowing after the hind.
Gods and Fighting Men
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Is it really true that we are incapable of sparing a single minute for sorrow and respect?
Times, Sunday Times
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Vice President Joe Biden attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington. He said the day of remembrance is mixed with sorrow and incredible pride.
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If I cried a tear of painful sorrow,If I lost all hope for a new tomorrow,Would you dry my tear and ease my pain,Would you make me smile once again?
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Forgetfulness and Famine and tearful Sorrows, Fightings also,
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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My disappointment with Christian rock has always been its lack of extremity, of the aching sorrow or joy, the celebration or desperation that fuels the best rock and traditional black gospel music.
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Great was the sorrow of the family when their eldest son bonded to a wolf and their eldest daughter to a deer.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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If I cried a tear of painful sorrow,If I lost all hope for a new tomorrow,Would you dry my tear and ease my pain,Would you make me smile once again?
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He passed on heartbreak and sorrow, a legacy Bill had to work to overcome.
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I think in India it is still an issue of economics and you have to worry about the future, and if your business fails, your entire clan is affected and is sorrowful and that puts additional pressure.
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To and fro she went, in noiseless ministry, as the long, dreadful days wore away, with a quiet smile on her lips, and in her dark, sorrowful eyes the rapt look of a pictured saint in some dim cathedral niche.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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Such phrases and the music had helped her to recognize again that the one whose birth we celebrate is none other than the one who bears our sorrows and heals our pain.
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Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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She was very young, I remember now with sorrow, and very beautiful; though _beautiful_ is not so much the word to describe her as _charming_ -- magnetic, graceful, intelligent.
The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems
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Joy often comes after sorrow, like morning after night.
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Tired and discontented housewives found their vague sorrows and vaguer longings were only the result of their "unregenerate" state; the lazy country youths felt that the frustration of their small ambitions lay in their not being
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
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Sorrowful tears slid down her cheeks and splotched the words of the paper.
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Dion sniveled, half out of sorrow for himself, the other half simply out of fear.
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Their memories of the past will necessarily be plural as well as conflicting, bringing with them both joy and sorrow, both rejoicing and mourning, both happiness as well as despondency.
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A morning newspaper should be a city's crown of glory, an intellectual Aurora ushering in the new-born day; but in Houston's case her chief newspaper is a sorrow's crown of sorrow, her inexpungeable badge of shame.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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She told about a woman in her grief counseling group, who was also sorrowing over the loss of a child.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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I sorrow without relief for the sight that you deny, and die, for I long to die.
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Whether happiness and sorrow in life would finally become memories.Why not face them with smile.
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It is this apparent sameness that lies at the root of the sorrow, the inconsolability, of the living, who want the world to bear its sorrows physically, to betray the signs of an existence that will never again be the same.
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Cave honors his own definition with songs that truly "resonate with the susurration of sorrow, tintinnabulation of grief" like "Straight to You", "Nobody's Baby Now", and the slayer "Into My Arms".
Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
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Amid the discomforts of his passage the author reflects on or trawls his past, his sorrows and betrayals, his experience as a wartime evacuee.
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I had a contemplation of the sufferings of Christ, and I besought him to let me feel his sorrows with him, and prayed five paternosters in adoration of the five sacred wounds.
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Me brother Tim had brought his fawther's gree hairs with sorrow to the greeve; me brother Mick had robbed the par'sh church repaytedly; me sisther Annamaroia had jilted the
The Virginians
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(sceal) eorl wegan māððum tō ge-myndum (_no earl shall wear a memorial jewel_), 3016; pret.ind. hē þā frætwe wæg ... ofer ȳða ful (_bore the jewels over the goblet of the waves_), 1208; wæl-seaxe ... þæt hē on byrnan wæg, 2705; heortan sorge wæg (_bore heart's sorrow_); so, 152, 1778, 1932,
Beowulf
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In this mood she sought out Arbaces, presenting herself as one loving unrequitedly, and seeking in sorrow the aid of wisdom.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
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Joy often comes after sorrow, like morning after night.
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His breathing was rapid and shallow and the sorrow and weariness in his eyes were very apparent.
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He closed his eyes and listened to the Forestmaster's whimsical voice change to a somber, sorrowful tone.
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That which intimately comprises the nature of repentance is, sorrow on account of sin committed, and of its demerit, which is so much the deeper, as the acknowledgment of sin is clearer, and more copious.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
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Add nothing, and diminish nothing, let this lamp shine “till the day dawn, ’till the morning of the resurrection,” and walk ye in the light of it, and do not kindle any other sparkles, else ye shall lie down in the grave in sorrow, and rise in sorrow.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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“Dearest wife and daughter,” returned the Emperor, “I have hitherto spared you the burden of a painful secret, which I have locked in my own bosom, at whatever expense of solitary sorrow and unimparted anxiety.
Count Robert of Paris
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And also logic, if you feel sorrow, your spiritual homeland certainly will be enveloped by sorrow.
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Who couldn't drink, drown her sorrows.
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He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
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And found there the blessed Denis preaching, and made him cruelly to be beaten, bespit and despised, and fast to be bounden with Rusticus and Eleutherius, and to be brought tofore him: And when he saw that the saints were constant and firm in the acknowledging of our Lord, he was much heavy and sorrowful.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5
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The time is not far distant," he said in a letter to John Adams, "at which we are to repose in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall love and never lose again.
History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919
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The edict, it states, was drawn up because of the ‘critical and sorrowful situation and lack of security and to serve the common good’.
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And I learnt from my Parsi connections through marriage that death and sorrow can be handled with so much finesse, so much dignity.
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My daughter!" exclaimed the piper, in a half-angry, half-sorrowful voice, while a slight moisture forced itself through his orbless lids.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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Earth, with all thy sorrows, take, take me once again, that better I may learn to work my way to that last harbour, which rejecting the criminal repiner, opens its soft bosom to the firm, though supplicating sufferer! '
Camilla
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There is kind provision made even against our frailties: as we are so constituted that time abundantly abates our sorrows, and begets in us that resignment of temper, which ought to have been produced by a better cause; a due sense of the authority of God, and our state of dependence.
Human Nature and Other Sermons
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All the shames, sorrows, and sufferings of France were concentered on his head.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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Smiling, not because happiness too long, is too long time forgot to sorrow.
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There was confusion, and gloom and sorrow, and curiosity among the domestics, while the retainers of the law went from place to place, making an inventory of the goods and chattels falling under their warrant of distress, or poinding, as it is called in the law of Scotland.
The Antiquary
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Our hearts ache, we count the days, we weep with her family, sharing their pain and sorrow.
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He shall find nothing remaining but those sorrows which grow up after our fast-springing youth, overtake it when it is at a stand, and overtop it utterly when it begins to wither; insomuch as, looking back from the very instant time, and from our now being, the poor, diseased, and captive creature hath as little sense of all his former miseries and pains as he that is most blest, in common opinion, hath of his forepast pleasures and delights.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
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At this time of sorrow, deep sympathy goes to you and yours.
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Certainly, the movies are comedies, emphatically painful and sorrowful comedies, but they are comedies.
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There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness, intolerance into compassion or war into peace.
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He threw his head forward so a wave of silvery hair covered his sorrowful face.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some, for the that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
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Zabíbah is a preparation of hemp florets, opium and honey, much affected by the lower orders, whence the proverb: Temper thy sorrow with Zabibah.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow! Mehmet Murat ildan
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She smiled, but a pang of sorrow lanced her heart.
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Jesus is coming this time not as a helpless baby in a manger, not as a man of sorrows, but as victor and conqueror to claim his own.
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He seems broody, his dark eyes deep and sorrowful.
Times, Sunday Times
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He shook his head and a look of sorrow twisted his rugged features.
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Moans and groans from the wounded reached his ears and filled him with the deepest sorrow.
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391: That it engluts, and swallowes other sorrowes,
Othello (1623 First Folio Edition)
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Her family is wealthier than most and has seen more sorrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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We enjoy his victories, and feel true sorrow for his losses.
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The family is the rain, take irritable, leaving Qingliang; affection is the wind, blowing the sorrow, stay happy; the family is the sun, taking away the darkness, leaving the light. The family is the most great, no matter you are happy, frustration, pain, loss, it will gently on your way, quietly with your life.
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For every community and every people, the seasons of our joy and sorrow bespeak our deepest values.
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And after this Mahomet fell oft in the epileptical passion, and when the lady his wife saw him oft fall, she was much sorrowful that she had wedded him.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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She was afraid, suddenly, after all this headiness of sorrow and violence.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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There is enough of sorrow in this world, without looking into futurity for it.
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Frey is, we are to understand, a man of sorrows, who has undergone excruciation if not crucifixion, and has been stigmatised by his bad press.
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review
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I suddenly feel myself like a doll,acting all kinds of joys and sorrows.There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
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It is wonderful that from so much sorrow such happiness could come.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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O destiny! to what a life of pain and sorrow didst thou bear me beyond all men that ever were, e'en from the very first; yea for when I was yet unborn, or ever I had left my mother's womb and seen the light, Apollo foretold to Laius that I should become my father's murderer; woe is me!
The Phoenissae
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Whilst drinking his beer he cheered the heart of the sorrowful Jack Slingsby by buying his whole tinker's stock-in-trade -- beat, plant, pony, and all -- concluding that "a tinker is his own master, a scholar is not.
Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913
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Their first thought was not one of sorrow and sympathy.
The Sun
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In the hidden reaches where memory probes are sorrows too deep to fathom.
Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
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There she found the wax-candles lighted and the Princess Hayat al-Nufus seated and awaiting her; whereupon she bethought her of her husband and what had betided them both of sorrow and severance in so short a space; she wept and sighed and groaned groan upon groan, and began improvising these couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Perhaps Shakespeare's most famous play, Romeo and Juliet combines the contrasting elements of humor and sorrow, bawdiness and civil strife, and innocent love and ignorant hate to rouse an amazing depth of mixed tenderness and tension.
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Whether it is happiness or sorrow, it would finally become memories of life.
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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. Charles Dickens
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Perhaps a researcher can also shield herself from sorrow by attempting to conduct objective value-free research on subjective emotion-drenched issues.
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And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
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The hushed, dirge-like song closes the album as it opens, with beautifully reflected sorrow.
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He will be sadly missed and deeply mourned by his sorrowing family.
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There will be no regret and sorrow if you fight with all your strength.
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The sorrow lifted from his face and he smiled, giving me the urge to grab him and kiss him.
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I’m really trying to figure out an alternative to wofare, which is an archaic term for sorrow, and was originally the opposite of “welfare.”
Think Progress » Pelosi: Congress Will Not Fund Escalation If Bush Does Not Justify It
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After a few readings, you can understand that her reality has a deep human presence, elemental sorrow, and ecstasy.
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How many loved your moments of glad grace. And loved your beauty with love false or true. But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you. And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Me did Hermes at a critical time, to my sorrow, intrust to thy father's safe keeping for this my lord, who now is here and wishes to reclaim me.
Helen
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The girl repeated the name sorrowfully, but perplexedly, not grasping its full significance.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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The sorrow he felt before was only an earnest of this damnation, a taste and prelibation of future wrath.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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He has much the same look as the old man, the look of deep sorrow and despair.
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If I cried a tear of painful sorrow,If I lost all hope for a new tomorrow,Would you dry my tear and ease my pain,Would you make me smile once again?
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But you don't live life and not know heartache, sorrow and fear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course superstition is at the bottom of this barbarity; the same which a generation ago made the silly accoucheur refuse to give ether because of the divine (?) saying “In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This day provides an opportunity to acknowledge grief and sorrow, and to teach why Christians use a cross as a symbol.
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With a sorrowful expression Noyon went to a sort of bookcase and took down a blue packet.
The Enormous Room
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She had a look of sorrow mixed with disappointment on her face.
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Smiling, not because happiness too long, is too long time forgot to sorrow.
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When every love comes to the end, if u look back, u will find flowers and sorrows, but it's always beautiful.
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Reply Obj. 1: Sorrow was not in Christ, as a perfect passion; yet it was inchoatively in Him as a "propassion.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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The continent is doomed by its population boom, its endemic diseases, its tribalism, its corruption, its lack of infrastructure, even -- whisper some, more in sorrow than in prejudice -- its genes.
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If your life is full of sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow enthusiasm from a great soul to make your life whole. RVM
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose, / Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, / Or on the wealth of globed peonies hold the simplest remedy for overcoming an attack of the blues.
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Here she mainly rolls her eyes in sorrow and gazes longingly at Fairbanks, a pretty sight himself in a ripped, muscle-exposing blouse and thigh-hugging culottes.
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While I was thus mutely pondering within myself, and recording my sorrowful complainings with my pen, it seemed to me that there appeared above my head a woman of a countenance exceeding venerable.
Consolation of Philosophy
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The sorrow and pain that they caused is unimaginable.
Times, Sunday Times
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But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful?
Chapter 1
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And thou, poor wretch, who to thy sorrow art wedding a king's daughter, little thinkest of the doom thou art bringing on thy children's life, or of the cruel death that waits thy bride.
Medea
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She will smite the empires with her wrath, and in her sorrow wash them away!
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Ministers and officers were sitting at a long table in the conference hall, a dull rain sorrowfully washing large windows.
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A number of German words have become current in general South Australian English (mettwurst, leberwurst or liverwurst, and the ubiquitous fritz, for example, all describing types of sausage), but spelling, especially in words containing - ie -, is often so uncertain that a correspondent in the local newspaper felt obliged to point out that a Wiener Schnitzel has nothing to do with wine and a Liedertafel need not be sorrowful.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
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The mighty chief, atheling excellent, unblithe sat, labored in woe for the loss of his thanes, when once had been traced the trail of the fiend, spirit accurst: too cruel that sorrow, too long, too loathsome.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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Be always as merry as ever you can, for no-one delights in a sorrowful man.
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At this time of sorrow, deep sympathy goes to you and yours.
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No, no, not even the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that great alleviator of all the sorrows of the heart, is allowed an entrance there.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome.
The Romance of the Forest
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Who can bear sorrow without such change, till age has fixed the lines of the face, or till care has made them hard and unmalleable?
He Knew He Was Right
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Goethe has called the Weltschmerz, and in which the concentrated sorrow of the world seemed suddenly to lie heavy upon him.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
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But here also he was afflicted in this his sorrow: of stich con - solation this his day of suffering bereaved him too.
Sermons, for parochial and domestic use, designed to illustrate and enforce ...
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Health, strength, agility, and animal spirits, she may sorrowing feel diminish; but she hears everyone complain of similar failures, and she misses them unmurmuring, though not unlamenting; but of beauty, every declension is marked with something painful to self-love.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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These are punctuated in somber and sorrowful moments by elegiac strings.
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News of her passing was met with genuine sorrow in her home district, where she was an esteemed and highly regarded member of the community.
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She moved toward the stables, toward the horse that could take her to freedom, to bear her message of sorrow and loss.
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Messias by a mechanical theory of retribution and doubting his sinlessness and acceptableness to God because of his outward sorrows.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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I suddenly feel myself like a doll,acting all kinds of joys and sorrows.There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
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Similarly the threat of a loss arouses anxiety and actual loss causes sorrow, while both situations are likely to arouse anger.
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But, to make them blessings, you must act your part well; for they may, by your neglect, your ill-treatment, your evil example, be made to be the _contrary of blessings_; instead of pleasure, they may bring you pain; instead of making your heart glad, the sight of them may make it sorrowful; instead of being the staff of your old age, they may bring your gray hairs in grief to the grave.
Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
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He named over to himself those friends on whom he might call, and then his mind paused as Betty Medill’s name hazily and sorrowfully occurred to him.
Tales of the Jazz Age
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She bade them adieu blithely; but the thoughts engendered by the invitation stood before her as sorrowful and rayless ghosts which could not be laid.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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In the midst of the delight of the moment, there lies concealed a foreboding of inescapable sorrow.
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He speaks of remorse/[Page xxviii]/for not succeeding better in his work, remorse for idleness when he was resting: of his lecturing he says: "my sorrow in delivery was less, my remorse after delivery was much greater"; and when writing the 'Jane Welsh Carlyle' paper, being interrupted by Froude, he says: "Froude is now coming, and with remorse
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Achmatova and Zamjatin - interred alive throughout their lives - are condemned to create in silence until they die, never hearing the echo of their written words, then that is not only their personal tragedy, but a sorrow to the whole nation, a danger to the whole nation.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
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Like the catalogue of pastoral images that Keats includes in his famous ode, a city building awash in rain has become a perfect place for anyone beset by a melancholy fit to glut her sorrow.
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People ate lugubrious meals around the waterfalls, their faces green with marine sorrow.
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Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
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When every love comes to the end, if u look back, u will find flowers and sorrows, but it's always beautiful.
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“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore? — and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”
The Abbot
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The people of Tinryland expressed their sorrow in prayerful ways during the week.
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The family is the rain, take irritable, leaving Qingliang; affection is the wind, blowing the sorrow, stay happy; the family is the sun, taking away the darkness, leaving the light. The family is the most great, no matter you are happy, frustration, pain, loss, it will gently on your way, quietly with your life.
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Gerald, penniless, had raised Tara; Ellen had risen above some mysterious sorrow; Grandfather Robillard, surviving the wreck of Napoleon’s throne, had founded his fortunes anew on the fertile Georgia coast; Great-grandfather Prudhomme had carved a small kingdom out of the dark jungles of Haiti, lost it, and lived to see his name honored in Savannah.
Gone with the Wind
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Livy laid her japonica, down to get a better "holt" for kissing -- which Susie presently perceived, and became thoughtful: then said sorrowfully, turning the great deeps of her eyes upon her mother: "Don't you care for you wow?
Complete Letters of Mark Twain
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Dinna ye ken, Nelly woman, his presence will vex you no longer? you're at liberty to go your own gate, and be as you have been -- that was his propine," whispered Lady Staneholme, in sorrowful perplexity, but without rousing Nelly from her stupor.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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He has a point: it would hardly be right to wear a sparkly suit and tight trousers while singing stark, sepulchral songs about death, pain and sorrow in a voice like the wind whistling through his old Appalachian bones.
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13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Her sorrow had localized, congealed, solidified.
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All through the long sorrow of that night I, who had rejected him, confessed his sway with tears and inappeasable regrets ....
In the Days of the Comet
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I suddenly feel myself like a doll,acting all kinds of joys and sorrows.There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
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Knowing all this, the Babu asked the Brahman point-blank to perform a false samadhi, that is to say, to feign an inspiration and to announce to the sorrowing mother that her late son's will had acted consciously in all the circumstances; that he brought about his end in the body of the flying fox, that he was tired of that grade of transmigration, that he longed for death in order to attain a higher position in the animal kingdom, that he is happy, and that he is deeply indebted to the sahib who broke his neck and so freed him from his abject embodiment.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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Note also that the song is sung by a guy who is meant to be not only blazingly sexy but deep and artistic as well, and yet he does not have the girl, nor does he drown his sorrows in the thousands of other women potentially available to him.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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The main feature is, of course, a trip to Caesars Palace with plenty of perks and gift certificates to smooth away the sorrow of losing the Oscar.
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Parting is such sweet sorrow. William Shakespeare
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he drank to drown his sorrows
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A firkin of the four per cent beer has already been donated to the players but whether they will use it to toast their success or drown their sorrows remains to be seen.
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But all my sorrow and regret could not put my marriage or my family together again.
Christianity Today
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As Gratiolet remarks, whenever our attention is long concentrated on any subject, we forget to breathe, and then relieve ourselves by a deep inspiration; but the sighs of a sorrowful person, owing to his slow respiration and languid circulation, are eminently characteristic. 1 As the grief of a person in this state occasionally recurs and increases into a paroxysm, spasms affect the respiratory muscles, and he feels as if something, the so-called globus hystericus, was rising in his throat.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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Sorrow, Remorse, Indignation, Despair itself, all these like helldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the poor dayworker, as of every man: but he bends himself with free valour against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves.
Past and Present
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So take care of them while they are there and avoid the sorrow and regret you will have when they are gone.
The Sun
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Not finding any convenient method, she sorrowfully resigned the privilege of writing to her friend entirely.
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Those whose souls are sorrowful in the Lord, who sow in tears and sorrow after a godly sort, need not question but that in due time their souls shall be joyful in the Lord; for gladness is sown for them, and they shall at last enter into the joy of their Lord.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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May friends give you strength at this time of sorrow.May faith give you hope for every tomorrow.
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My deepest sorrow and thoughts are with his family at this time.
The Sun
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Every heart has its own sorrow.
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And thus it came about that she ceased to grow indignant at Branwell's follies; she made up her mind to accept with angerless sorrow his natural vices.
Emily Brontë
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For this is thankworthy , if for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.
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“Listen, O my brother, to what my sire told me yesternight of the calamity which hath betided him in the withering of his crops before their time, by reason of the rarity of rain and the sore sorrow that is fallen on this city.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
